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Piper McKenzie presents the world premiere of Trav S.D.'s Willy Nilly: A Musical Exploitation of the Most Far-Out Cult Murders of the Psychedelic Era in the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival August, 2009 marked the 40th anniversary of the Tate-Labianca Murders, committed by the psychedelic hippie cult commonly known as the Manson Family as well as Piper McKenzie's World Premiere of Trav S.D.'s rock musical Willy Nilly: A Musical Exploitation of the Most Far Out Cult Murders of the Psychedelic Era at the New York International Fringe Festival. After a wave of publicity (Manson Family member Squeaky Fromme was paroled on the day the show opened), praise (Michael Musto in the Village Voice called the show 'a tastily eccentric 'psychedelic-atessen'), and sold-out performances, the FringeNYC Encore Series has chosen the show as one of this year's extensions.

The classic Mel Brooks movie Young Frankenstein is alive...and it's headed to the Fox Theatre! You'll have a monstrously good time at this spectacular new production, winner of the 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award and the Broadway.com Audience Award for Best Musical! Performances begin May 11-23.

Theater Talk airs Friday nights on PBS/Thirteen and 5 times weekly on CUNY TV. It also telecast every Thursday night on PBS Station NJN, which is available to all over-the-air digital and cable TV viewers in the NYC area. Check your local listings!

Rehearsals have started and excitment is building for The Pollard Theatre's production of Rent. The show is set to run from October 9 - October 31, 2009. Tickets are on sale now!!

Death of a Salesman only runs through this Saturday, September 5, so don't miss your chance to see the show Oklahoma City is buzzing about!

La Jolla Playhouse presents the world premiere of Creditors, adapted and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife) from the play by August Strindberg. A La Jolla Playhouse commission, Creditors runs September 29 ? October 25 in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre.

Fresh from a performance with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Band, violinist Jonathan Jazz Russell comes to Middlebury?s Town Hall Theater on Sunday, September 20.

Southwest Shakespeare Company kicks off its 16th season with the opening of The Comedy of Errors on Sept. 18 in Mesa.

Nicknamed the Black Venus, Josephine Baker, one of the United States?s most glamorous and legendary expats, is the dramatic subject of ?Looking for Josephine,? a wildly splashy musical revue, which after opening at Paris?s L?Opéra Comique in 2006 and playing to over 200 sold-out houses was seen in theaters throughout Europe before returning to Paris twice more, where it was once again greeted with standing-room-only crowds. Directed by Jérôme Savary and starring American musical artist Nicolle Rochelle, plus a cast of 22 Cuban, Chilean, French and American dancers, actors, tappers, singers and musicians, ?Looking for Josephine? makes its American debut at Peak Performances@Montclair, September 17-27.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) extended its brand-new 10UP sale program to all 2009?10 subscription season productions following the huge success of the 72-hour limited sale for the season opener, Brief Encounter. Over a 72-hour period, the 10UP program sold 330 tickets, selling out two performances? worth of second balcony tickets. A.C.T. now provides world-class theater to the Bay Area community at happy hour prices for every production of its highly anticipated 2009?10 subscription season with specially priced $10 second balcony tickets available to the first 10 performances of every mainstage production (excluding A Christmas Carol). Along with the discounted ticket price, for those 10 performances A.C.T.?s beautiful Sky Bar will open one hour before curtain with happy hour drink discounts on signature cocktails, beer, and wine, making A.C.T. the most affordable and fun entertainment option in the Bay Area. For more information and to purchase 10UP tickets, please visit www.act-sf.org/10up.

This weekend, beginning Saturday, September 5, L.A. Theatre Works will air The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard, starring Andrea Bowen, Matt Gaydos, Carolyn Seymour, Simon Templeman, Douglas Weston, Joanne Whalley and Matthew Wolf. The broadcast can be heard locally in Southern California on Saturday from 10pm to midnight on KPCC 89.3 FM, and can also be streamed on demand at http://www.latw.org/.

Rotary International is joining violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman and the world-renowned New York Philharmonic, led by Philharmonic Assistant Conductor Daniel Boico, to present the Concert to End Polio, a benefit performance supporting the global effort to eradicate this disabling childhood disease. The Concert to End Polio will take place on Wednesday, December 2, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City. Program information will be announced at a later date.

The Shelterbelt Theatre is set to host a party on September 13: Celebrating A Labor of Love, a Shelterbelt Theatre Fundraiser (Old Mattress Factory, 501 N 13th St, Omaha). Doors open at 5 pm, entertainment at 6 pm.

Tickets are on sale now for the New York one-night-only reading of The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, the compelling and groundbreaking epilogue to the play, The Laramie Project, which was written in response to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard. The epilogue, which is written by Tectonic Theater Project members Moisés Kaufman, Leigh Fondakowski, Greg Pierotti, Andy Paris and Stephen Belber, will be performed simultaneously in theatres across the globe on Monday, October 12 starting at 8 PM (EST).

Ars Lyrica?s 2009-2010 season offers a fantastic musical excursion: London, Naples, Paris, and Rome await?and you don?t need to get on an airplane or pack a bag! Our musical ?Grand Tour? follows a path trod by generations of young people to soak up the culture of distant nations. What they heard is what?s on our menu: some of the most extraordinary music of the Baroque era, realized on period instruments in the superb acoustics of the Hobby Center?s Zilkha Hall. Please visit: www.arslyricahouston.org for season details.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival, Michael Minarik & Eleven Entertainment announced today that Carly Jibson (Cry-Baby, Hairspray), Clarke Thorell (Catch Me If You Can, Hairspray), Sarah Saltzberg (?Spelling Bee), Kristine Zbornik (A Catered Affair, Road Show) and Randy Blair (Adding Machine) will star in Fat Camp, a new, completely original musical, at the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival. With book by Blair and Timothy Michael Drucker (creators of the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival?s Outstanding Musical winner Perez Hilton Saves the Universe), lyrics by Blair, and music by Matthew Roi Berger, Fat Camp will play the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row from September 30th ? October 8th. The production will be directed by Obie Award-winning and Drama Desk Award nominee director Alex Timbers (Gutenberg! the Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, ?Children?s Scientology Pageant).

On October 5, multi-award winning composer and lyricist Ryan Scott Oliver brings sexy schoolteachers, provocative rent-boys, obsessive homicidal teenagers, and fairy dust to rock out at NYMF. Shows at 7:00pm and 9:30pm.

Napa Valley Opera House is set to present the Zoppé Italian Family Circus for six Performances at the Yountville Veterans Home: October 8 ? 11, 2009.

Grosse Pointe Theatre begins its ?Sparkling 62nd Season? with the adult comedy, Sylvia by A.R. Gurney. The show opens on Sunday September 13 at 2:00 p.m., remaining performances are September 17-19 at 8:00 p.m., Sunday, September 20 at 2 p.m., and September 23-26 at 8:00 p.m. Shows will be performed at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial?s Fries Auditorium, 32 Lake Shore Road in Grosse Pointe Farms . Tickets are $16.00. Discounts are available for group bookings. Call the theatre at 313-881-4004 or visit the ticket office Monday-Saturday, 10:00 a.m.?1:00 p.m., at 315 Fisher Road in Grosse Pointe near the intersection of Fisher and Maumee/Grosse Pointe Boulevard.

Comedy Works recently announced that Finesse Mitchell will perform at the Comedy Works Larimer Square: Thursday September 10 at 8:00 PM (tickets - $14.00), Friday September 11 at 8:00 PM / 10:00 PM (tickets - $22.00), and Saturday September 12 at 6:30 PM / 8:30 PM / 10:30 PM (tickets - $22.00).